The Fantasy Football Mega-Preview Plus Mike O’Malley | With Matthew Berry, Danny Heifetz, Craig Horlbeck, and Danny Kelly

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.4 • 30.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by ESPN's Matthew Berry for their annual fantasy football preview. They discuss quarterback strategies in the new era of the NFL, front-runner fantasy offenses, some of their favorite NFL prop bets, and more (3:45). Then Bill is joined by the hosts of 'The Ringer Fantasy Football Show'—Craig Horlbeck, Danny Kelly, and Danny Heifetz—to discuss some fantasy football stay-away teams, top-tier fantasy RBs, and more (45:15). Finally Bill talks to actor and writer Mike O'Malley about his new show 'Heels' on Starz, the difficulty of casting for a sports show, attempting to bring larger audiences into the world of pro wrestling, some Boston sports talk, and more (1:15:45). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Matthew Berry, Mike O'Malley, Craig Horlbeck, Danny Kelly, and Danny Heifetz Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Fantasy Football is back.
0:01.7	You don't want your team to suck.
0:03.7	My favorite fantasy football punishment I've ever heard
0:06.2	is the last place guy had to spend 24 hours in a waffle house
0:09.9	and every waffle he ate was one hour off of his count.
0:12.9	I want numbers. How many did he end up eating?
0:14.7	12 waffles and 12 hours.
0:17.1	I'm Danny Hyphaz.
0:18.2	I'm Danny Kelly.
0:19.2	And I'm Craig Horlbeck.
0:20.3	We host the Ringer Fantasy Football Show
0:22.2	on the Ringer Podcast Network.
0:23.6	To avoid eating 12 waffles in a waffle house,
0:26.0	follow the Ringer Fantasy Football Show on Spotify.
0:29.8	We're also brought to you by FanDuel Sportsbook,
0:31.9	as well as the Ringer and theRinger.com
0:36.1	and the Ringer Podcast Network,
0:38.2	where we put up a new rewatchables on Monday night.
0:40.9	We did the 28th anniversary, which is coming up of Hardball,
0:44.2	me and Van Lathen, breaking down G-Baby's tragic
0:47.6	that for literally an hour.
0:49.0	Then we talked about the movie for 10 minutes.
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